Book Reviews: L. E. Shaposhnikov. Orthodoxy and Philosophical Idealism: The Untenability of the Philosophical Apologetics of Orthodoxy (Gor'kii: Volgo-Viatskoe Book Publishers, 1986, 144 pp.)

Abstract

The topicality and timeliness of the appearance of a book in which the philosophical apologetics of Orthodoxy is critically analyzed is beyond doubt. The increased popularity of Russian religious philosophers among contemporary Orthodox theologians, and the incorporation of some elements of their intellectual legacy into the arguments of our ideological adversaries in their attempts to enhance the prestige of religion, and of Orthodoxy in particular, make this topic a burning issue.